School run, playgroup with Harper, cooking risotto for the family – David Beckham talks about life after retirement

David Beckham is eating pasta in suite 250 of l’Hôtel Le Bristol in Paris, a
few hundred yards from the Champs Élysées. It is a Sunday afternoon in the
spring of 2013 and Beckham is chilled out, in jeans and a beige beanie. He
arrived at Paris Saint-Germain two months earlier and has been acclimatising
to his new club as his footballing career winds down.

He has amassed a fortune in excess of £160 million. For England, he has the
record for the most outfield caps, 115, and has captained the national team
on 59 occasions. He is also, for